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Chivalry Changes in Literature

women... Defend the weak and innocent... / Fight with honor... / Avenge the wronged. / Never abandon a friend, ally, or noble caus...

White Noise by Don DeLillo

electrifying success. The chancellor went on to serve as adviser to Nixon, Ford and Carter before his death on a ski lift in Aust...

English Literature of the 17th Century

In A Modest Proposal, also, he looks at the way in which dehumanisation results in a situation where the logical next step is one ...

Miguel de Cervantes Life, Writings, and Social Values

meaningful and yet is portrayed as ridiculous. Cervantes was known as a maverick and for his satirical representations of the soc...

Satire Types

such as "U.S. Urges Bin Laden To Form Nation It Can Attack" (12C). In fact, Bin Laden jokes are beginning to crop up and while peo...

Definition of Satire

science using comic motifs borrowed from writer such as Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Swift (Cook, 1995). The student researching thi...

Alexander Pope's 'Epistle to Burlington'

the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...

Comparative Analysis of Lear's The Jumblies and Carroll's Jabberwocky

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe(Carroll, 4)....

Voltaire, Moliere and Social Satire

money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...

'Don Juan' by Lord Byron

his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...

Analyzing the Portrayal of the Media in the Film Bob Roberts

himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...

Analyzing 'The History Man' by Malcolm Bradbury

British traditional literature tended more toward social realism and classical literary language (Bradbury et al). This awareness ...

Food Symbolism in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how food symbolism or anecdotal references provide satire on human suffering in Jonathan Swift's...

Use of Satire in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

In three pages this paper compares Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift with Candide by Voltaire in terms of how each author used ...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the element of satire that exists within Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There is ...

Charles Chaplin's Modern Times

In two pages the film's satire as well as the stand it takes against certain issues are discussed as they reflect America's Great ...

Physical and Moral Evil in Candide by Voltaire

In nine pages this paper discusses the author's use of satire in this analysis of physical and moral evil in Candide. Three sourc...

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by Christopher Durang

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

Land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this fictitious Houyhnhnms land featured in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is compared with eighteen cen...

'The Flea' by John Donne

In five pages religious satire, the notion of metaphysical conceit, argument, and metaphor are all considered within the context o...

Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

Sphereland and Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

In five pages Abbott's 19th century work is analyzed in terms of its presentation of women as inferior that was meant to serve at ...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

In seven pages this paper discusses the Monty Python type social satire that is featured in this classic Spanish novel. Eight sou...

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of intertextuality and the uses of satire and parody. Eleven sources are cited in t...

Satirical Life View of Jean Shepherd

In five pages this paper discusses how healing can be achieved through satire in an examination of 'Daphne Bigelow and the Spine C...

Literary Women in Ancient Rome and in the 20th Century

In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...

Mosca and Volpone's Relationship in Volpone by Ben Jonson

In 5 pages this analysis of Volpone by Ben Jonson focuses upon the interaction between Mosca and Volpone as well as the author's u...

The Golden Age Comedy of Voltaire And Moliere

For many historians, the comedy styles and content of the works of Moliere and Voltaire represent the pinnacle of 18th century Fre...

Uses of Satire in 'Body Rituals of the Nicerema' by Horace Miner and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of how each author employed satire. Three sources are cited in the...

Cocksure by Mordecai Richler and Satire

In five pages the 2 levels of satire featured in Cocksure by Mordecai Richler are examined. Three sources are listed in the bibli...